Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-03
AT HACIENDA DEL NORTE.
Edward WHO and the Little Woman
Leave Buena Vista for that Place.
Especial Correspondence

Leave Buena Vista for that Place.
Especial Correspondence.l
HACIENDA DEL NoRrE, Oct. 2S.-As
usual, while we were at Buena Vista
we took rooms at regular Mexican
ian, and as usual suffered from fleas and
other nameless vermin, and rose in the
morning feeling sleepy and out of sorts
generally, but the little woman bright
ened up as soon as she heard that
there was to be a wedding across the
street in the evening, and also by finding
pretty little boy with half shirt on,
who consented to stand still with his
finger in his mouth while she drew his
portrait.
AS soon as breakfast was over we sat
down on the stone edge of the dried UP
fountain in the court yard and she sub
mitted with the best grace in the world
to have her clothes examined by the Sc
noritas and senoras of the place, who
fiocked about her like pigeons They
looked at her dress and felt her trim little
waist, evidently puzzled by the whale
bones. They examined the stitches and
expressed disapprobation, and then ex-
tended their researches SO far as to want
to see the trimming of her petticoats, and
as she said afterward:
httu " dldW VIC llllC JltSu tHe1e, Ed
ward. never saw anybody SO curious
in my life"
Iventured to suggest that she had done
pretty much the same thing with their
clothes, but she Indignantly answered.:
'lt's no such thing Besides am here
to study the natives, and oh, Edward
there's boy with a centipede and a tar
antula. You must buy them at any price;
only be sure they are dead, or you can
have them killed, you know; but be care
full, they might bite, and they say there is
no cure for their bites except you can get
some of their own oil, and l don't know
how one could do that before they were
dead or i'll time to cure the bite, SO do be
CAREFUL
l went out and bought them both like
dutiful spouse, and they were dead.
both of them; but it took her about TWEEN
ty four hours to feel sure of the fact
And now we are at Hacienda del Norte.
We did not so in the diligencia when we
left Bucna Vista, for as we were about to
engage our places some one remarked in
our hearing that once when he rode over
the mountains in diligence there was q
woman and child afflicted with smallpox
among The passengers, and ut once the
little woman's loving watchfulness caused
her to say:
Edward, I give up. will not allow
you to be exposed to the horrors of con-
taGon. l could never forgive myself if
you caught that horrible disease. Take q
private conveyance if you will, and we
will take our risk together, but l will
never consent to your going In diligen-
cia. If you should get scalped wig
could be bought, but nothing can ever
hide the traces Of smallpox. l shall never
fail III my duty, Edward
Inwardly chuckling l engaged q sort of
vehicle with two wiry mustangs, n driver
ard an Outriler or maj or domo, or what
ever they call them, and we started early
Our express stipulation with the driver
and our man Friday was that whenever
we came to fine bit of scenery we were
to halt as long as we wished, and twice
we told them to stop, but in the first in
stance the horses were going up hill and
couldn't, and the next time they were
going down hill and they daren't, and
when we reached a plateau where there
was view of almost unparalleled extent
we were gravely told that sit is not
customary" and knew that it would be
an absolute physical and moral impossi-
bility to break that aGamantine law OF
custom.
We made, however, hurried sketches,
and hoped for Il better chance to catch
so,nethincr Of tho cycn;ci.o I,o,,+ 90 ~
atmospheric effects.
No one knows what hard riding means
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